Sherlock Holmes and his Adventures on American Radio (hardback)

<p>It’s been over a hundred and twenty-five years since the adventures of Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print and captivated a generation of readers. Subsequent generations have enjoyed adapted and expanded on his adventures leading him to become perhaps the most enduring character in fiction. </p><p> </p><p>That long run has been helped by his adventures in a variety of media most notably film and television. But what about radio? Holmes has had a long career in radio on both sides of the Atlantic indeed the radio adventures of Sherlock Holmes are almost as old as radio itself.</p><p> </p><p>He debuted on air in 1922 and just a few years later Holmes and Watson were featuring in a regular weekly series on NBC in the USA. That series ended in 1936 but when Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce made the first of their career-defining fourteen films as Holmes and Watson there was a certain inevitability about Holmes’ return to the American airwaves.</p><p> </p><p>The subsequent series ran for seven years and almost two hundred and twenty half hour radio shows. When Rathbone quit the role—in both radio and film – the show limped on for a few years.</p><p> </p><p>This book tells the story of those shows.</p>